I recall there was Desqview X out about that time. I'm not sure if it
had much to do with the X we now know and love.

Yes, it did. It really wasn't Desqview at all, it was a program to turn
you PC into an X terminal. I think it flopped as a product.
And when Win 3.0 came out, Desqview was dead, dead, dead. R.I.P.
Mark Allums